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  • I love how the author keeps bringing up how expensive it would be to implement a system of cloud computing rental because no one would pay the amount it would require to make such a thing profitable. But we’re talking about Jeff bezos here who took billions of dollars worth of loss for over 10 years before making Amazon the profit machine that it is now. Simply by making things cheaper for a long period of time until the customer base eas so used to the model that they could picture doing it any other way and their competition went out of business. I can totally foresee them doing this exact thing with cloud computing. Make it really cheap get people hooked where they have gotten rid of all of their in person computers and then, once access to home computing is either prohibitively expensive or impossible to do because parts are no longer available or otherwise impossible for people to switch away, jack up the price and make it profitable by squeezing every dime out of the average consumer.

    This was also, by the way, Netflix’s strategy as well as Spotify and all the other cloud-based services that people are “addicted to”. Take billions and loss to get people used to your service and not consider any alternative. Then once you have a captive audience shoot that price to the Moon.




  • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzOn Venus.
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    5 days ago

    Considering the downward spiral of science in America, it should hurt just a little bit I think.

    Edit: especially considering we have not been back to the moon since the early 1970’s even though we’ve had the capability this entire time. We’re only just now planning to send people back to the moon. And even that has taken teeth pulling effort to get the ball rolling. And I’m becoming quite doubtful it’ll actually happen because of who’s in charge of our government at the moment and the people who back them.



  • As with everything, it all depends on what you find boring.

    There’s no action in Citizen Kane. There’s a small mystery who’s answer you may have seen in other media without knowing. Mostly it is a biography about a fictional character, complete with interviews with friends and enemies of said character (the titular Kane). You only actually get to see and know the character through flashbacks.

    It should be noted that the character is actually based partly on a real person.











  • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzI dunno
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    1 month ago

    Nope. 2+5(8-5)=2+(40-25), The Distributive Law, a(b+c)=(ab+ac)

    Post picture declaiming brackets as a multiplication symbol, then proceeds to solve the problem to the exact same solution using distributive law to multiply both numbers within the bracket. Fucking genius.